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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salieri say is the effect of the slowness in the music?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Serenity.
(d) Patience.

2. Where is Salieri hidden?
(a) Behind the door.
(b) Behind an arras.
(c) In a wing-backed chair.
(d) Under a trestle table.

3. To what does Salieri compare the opening measures of the music he hears?
(a) A rusty squeezebox.
(b) A dusty oboe.
(c) A rusty triangle.
(d) A tired crumhorn.

4. What does Salieri ask of the audience/'Ghosts of the future'?
(a) To intercede for him with the saints.
(b) To praise his music.
(c) To be his confessors.
(d) To recognise his music.

5. What caused Mozart's death, according to the Venticelli?
(a) Rheumatic fever.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Puerperal fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prompts the Emperor's response to the opera?

2. What word does Mozart use to describe the singer he has engaged to play the lead in his opera?

3. What does Constanze accuse her husband of doing?

4. How does the audience react to the opera's finale?

5. How does Mozart insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Account for Salieri's shout from the chair as he listens to Mozart and Constanze play their bawdy game.

2. In what way does Salieri claim to be different from his parents?

3. What is Van Swieten's attitude to Salieri at this point in the play?

4. In what way does Salieri believe God is torturing him?

5. What is the significance of the golden light that bathes the Emperor and his court?

6. In what way does Mozart manage to insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

7. In what ways does Salieri work to undermine Mozart in this section of the play?

8. Comment on the dramatic function of the Venticelli in the opening scene.

9. What does this scene show us of Mozart's talent?

10. In what way is the 'calf-measuring scene' ironic?

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